A few weekends ago I found myself driving to Louisville on a Friday night. My friend Laura had invited me to help write the script for a short film for the 48-Hour Film Project.

The crux of this competition is that filmmakers meet at a certain time and place on Friday night, randomly draw a genre, receive certain elements required to be in the film and have 48 hours to produce a work.

Elizabethtown author Nancy Barry pens a book of stories too good not to be told.

“It only took 72 years,” she said.

Barry wanted to write a book since she was 3 years old.

She was too poor to have toys and too little to go out and became bored. She went to school with her mother to enroll her brother in first grade and discovered the wonder of books. Barry became a lifelong lover of books, counting “The Yearling” and “Heaven is for Real” as some of her favorites.